Miles City, Montana
– Range Riders Museum. Miles City is
the Cow Capitol of Montana and the guardian of the past is the
Range Riders’ Museum, a highlight for Western buffs! Complex is
set on the original site of Fort Keogh cantonment. Includes Bert
Clark Gun Collection, Memorial Hall, Fort Keogh’s Officers
Quarters, Heritage Center, and an original log cabin. For more
information call: 406-232-6146.

Rosebud, Montana– Clark and his exploration party passed
this area on July 28, 1806. The party was thankful to be back in
the “Fat Plains” where buffalo were numerous and they lived
“high” on buffalo meat. In the 1860’s – 70’s buffalo hunters
took over 40,000 robes from this area and shipped them out by
river boat. The slaughter disrupted eastern Montana’s Indian
culture and precipitated several years of bloody confrontation,
culminating in the Battle of Rosebud on June 17, 1876 (near
Busby) and the Battle of Little Big Horn eight days later.

Billings, Montana –
Pompeys Pillar
(28 miles east of
Billings). Captain William Clark writes in his journal on
Friday, July 25, 1806; " I marked my name and the day of the
month and year." This inscription is one of the surviving
on-site physical remains of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Clark named this rock Pompy's Tower. Pompy was Clark's nickname
for young Baptiste Charbonneau
whose mother, Sacagawea, was the
party's interpreter. Pompy means "little chief" in the Shoshone
language.